Isaak Fulda

Stumbling block for Isaak Fulda

Isaak Joseph Fulda (born July 5, 1868 in Mainz , † May 28, 1943 in Sobibor ) was a German banker.

Life

Mainz, Kaiserstrasse 38

Isaak Fulda was born in Mainz in mid-1868 as the son of Josef Fulda (1835–1919). The ancestors originally came from Frankfurt am Main and moved to Mainz after 1717. An ancestor had lived in Mainz as a "money changer" since 1807. In 1842, the Fulda bank was finally founded in Mainz. From around 1842 the business premises of the bank were at Klarastraße 29. Josef Fulda had a representative building built there in 1883 by the Mainz architect Peter Gustav Rühl .

Isaak Fulda became a partner in the Fulda bank in 1892. Five years later, Isaak married Johanna Rosenblatt (* 1876) from Regensburg . The children Leonhard (* 1898), Ernst (* 1899) and Emma Charlotte (* 1902) emerged from the marriage.

In 1923, on the initiative of Isaak Fulda, the Mainzer (later Rheinische) Garantiebank Kautionsversicherungs AG was founded, which had its business premises in a building on the corner of Diether-von-Isenburg-Strasse and Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse. The bank that acted as a credit insurer is now known as Coface Deutschland .

Isaak Fulda was a long-time member of the Mainz city council and was on the board of the Orthodox Jewish religious community.

In 1924 the Fulda bank moved from Klarastraße to Kaiserstraße 38, where the family also lived on one of the upper floors. When the NSDAP came to power , the possibilities of doing business for the Jewish banking house were considerably restricted. In 1936 Isaak Fulda had to give up his seat on the board of the Rheinische Garantiebank. His son Leonhard was released from his position as a board member. In 1937 the Fulda bank was Aryanized . In October 1937 Leonhard Fulda and his wife Ruth were killed in a car accident. In 1939 the houses at Kaiserstrasse 38 and Klarastrasse 29 were sold with considerable loss of value.

Isaak Fulda emigrated to Amsterdam in the summer of 1939 with his wife, his unmarried son Ernst and his granddaughter Margot (* 1930) , where his daughter Emma Charlotte Meijer-Fulda had lived since 1933. After the occupation of the Netherlands by German troops in 1940, the family returned to Germany. In 1943 Isaak Fulda was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp together with his wife Johanna, his daughter Emma Charlotte and his granddaughter Margot . All four were gassed there on May 28, 1943.

Honors

• 1990s: A street in the Am Kisselberg development area in Mainz is named after Isaak Fulda.
• February 18, 2014: Laying of a stumbling block in Kaiserstraße 38 in Mainz.

literature

• Foundations of a glamorous rise , in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , December 30, 2015, p. 15.